Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

- Gillies, Jerry

Best Quotes about Mistakes

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Link, Henry C.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

Gillies, Jerry

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

10.

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

13.

We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

14.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

15.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

17.

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

Gates, Bill

18.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

19.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry C. Link

20.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Daumal, Rene

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

25.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

28.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

31.

When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Pareto, Vilfredo

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

41.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

43.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

46.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

49.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce